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Comment by kramerger | Hacker News Reader

The bad thing about Fuchsiais that it's a Google product.

They may decide to kill it next week and switch to XNU or symbian or templeos and no one would be surprised.

That’s fine as long as it’s open source and a self-contained local piece of software (as Fuchsia is). The problem with Google killing products is that they’re closed source and/or require huge server resources and/or ML models.

From what I've read Fuschia is not at all self-contained. The UI is fully driven by and targeted towards Google the search and ecosystem.

But those write-ups were years ago and there hasn't been new reviews with much UI focus since then.

Operating Systems are not a very well defined subject. Linux doesn't include a UI layer for instance and that isn't considered a problem. Being tied to a particular experience limits the potential applications of the OS, so in many ways I would consider the lack of opinionated experience a good thing.

There is now a UI experience available as part of Fuchsia in the workstation product, but I wouldn't overly index on it as it's just one take on what you could use Fuchsia to build.

You’re probably right, though for an OS that’s the kind of dependency people would prefer to have removed anyway.

Google's proclivity for aggressively wiping the spaghetti off the wall is starting to work against it. I think maybe they need to start promising to open source any products they lose interest in.

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